Clallam County

Disa Wilson, guest services specialist at Feiro Marine Life Center at Port Angeles City Pier, rinses anthropods from a filtering screen that will become food for other fish in the center’s public displays. The center offers visitors a chance to see and touch numerous forms of marine life, along with other interactive displays. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Filter food

Disa Wilson, guest services specialist at Feiro Marine Life Center at Port Angeles City Pier, rinses anthropods from a filtering screen that will become food… Continue reading

Disa Wilson, guest services specialist at Feiro Marine Life Center at Port Angeles City Pier, rinses anthropods from a filtering screen that will become food for other fish in the center’s public displays. The center offers visitors a chance to see and touch numerous forms of marine life, along with other interactive displays. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Hand recount ordered for commissioner of public lands

The Secretary of State has certified the results of the primary election and directed a hand recount of votes in the race… Continue reading

Photo by Karen Griffiths Cutline: As the last egg carrier, Luke Seeley, with Ruby, loped around the arena — and keeping his raw egg snuggled firmly into the spoon — making him the winner of the Egg on a Spoon contest at the JeffCo Fair.

HORSEPLAY: Keep kids off electronics with summer equestrian events

OH HOW I relish celebrating our area youth equestrians’ accomplishments. I say the more we can get them outside engaging in life and away from… Continue reading

Photo by Karen Griffiths Cutline: As the last egg carrier, Luke Seeley, with Ruby, loped around the arena — and keeping his raw egg snuggled firmly into the spoon — making him the winner of the Egg on a Spoon contest at the JeffCo Fair.

Port Angeles soliciting feedback for comprehensive plan update

State-required policy to address housing, transportation, more

Kim Rosales and other volunteers help gather school supplies for students at last year’s Back to School Fair at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim Back to School Fair set for today

With the start of school just days away, Sequim’s annual Back to School Fair will look to help students in all grades be… Continue reading

Kim Rosales and other volunteers help gather school supplies for students at last year’s Back to School Fair at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show on KONP 1450 AM, 101.7 FM in… Continue reading

Visitors and dignitaries ascend the steps at the observation tower at Port Angeles City Pier on Wednesday after a ceremony to officially reopen the structure to the public. The tower was closed in November 2023 due to safety issues and structural concerns, prompting numerous repairs. Funding for the work, totaling more than $650,000, came from city lodging tax. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Tower opens in Port Angeles

Visitors and dignitaries ascend the steps at the observation tower at Port Angeles City Pier on Wednesday after a ceremony to officially reopen the structure… Continue reading

Visitors and dignitaries ascend the steps at the observation tower at Port Angeles City Pier on Wednesday after a ceremony to officially reopen the structure to the public. The tower was closed in November 2023 due to safety issues and structural concerns, prompting numerous repairs. Funding for the work, totaling more than $650,000, came from city lodging tax. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Fire officials make progress on small fires within national park, forest

Residents near 2620 Road Fire all at Level 1 ‘get ready’ status

Humane Society to partner with sheriff

Bark House to reserve kennels for dangerous dogs

Kodiak Building Partners acquires Thomas Building Center

Acquisition to enhance operational efficiency, company officials say

Makah Days, music festival slated for this weekend

A children’s theater performance, music festival performances and the 100th Makah Days celebration highlight weekend events on the Peninsula. • “Murder Most Fowl,” a production… Continue reading

Woman flown to OMC after car goes into ditch

A Neah Bay woman was flown to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while she was driving… Continue reading

Nora Murray, 2, reaches for a handhold while climbing on a playground toy at the Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield as her mother, Christina Murray of Port Angeles, looks on. The pair were on a Wednesday outing to the popular Port Angeles playground. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Firm grasp

Nora Murray, 2, reaches for a handhold while climbing on a playground toy at the Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield as her mother, Christina Murray… Continue reading

Nora Murray, 2, reaches for a handhold while climbing on a playground toy at the Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield as her mother, Christina Murray of Port Angeles, looks on. The pair were on a Wednesday outing to the popular Port Angeles playground. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Council clarifies Port Angeles short-term rental policy

Owners who pass test can run multiple units

Everett man sentenced to 13 years in prison

An Everett man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison following a guilty plea to two counts of possession of controlled… Continue reading

Fire spotted at Maiden Peak in national park

2620 Road Fire containment efforts ongoing

Principal Bonnie Bird (Aubrey Tanner) talks to Captain Curry (Matilda Redlin) and Rich Gravee (Henry Wendel) about the International Chicken Cooking Contest while reporters Burgundy Divan (Isaac Wendel) and Carla (Alivia Halverson) try to solve the murder of a famous chef in the Port Angeles Community Players’ Children’s Theater production of Murder Most Fowl this weekend. (Port Angeles Community Players)

Port Angeles Community Players to host ‘Murder Most Fowl’

The Port Angeles Community Players’ Children’s Theater will present “Murder Most Fowl” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m.… Continue reading

Principal Bonnie Bird (Aubrey Tanner) talks to Captain Curry (Matilda Redlin) and Rich Gravee (Henry Wendel) about the International Chicken Cooking Contest while reporters Burgundy Divan (Isaac Wendel) and Carla (Alivia Halverson) try to solve the murder of a famous chef in the Port Angeles Community Players’ Children’s Theater production of Murder Most Fowl this weekend. (Port Angeles Community Players)

Rural Community Leadership Program to be conducted this fall

Rural Development Initiatives will offer its Rural Community Leadership Program in Clallam County beginning in October. The free, skills-based program will help… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: The wrath of the Thunderbird

YOU KNOW LIGHTNING’S getting closer when you feel the thunder in your bones. That’s how close it got during the recent storm that battered the… Continue reading

A model of a statue of Nisqually tribal activist Billy Frank Jr. by Chinese American sculptor Haiying Wu sits in the Port Angeles Public Library in conjunction with a meeting of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The model eventually will be cast in bronze and installed in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. Frank received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for his work in fighting for tribal treaty rights and obligations. The statue will be on display at the library through Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Tribal activist

A model of a statue of Nisqually tribal activist Billy Frank Jr. by Chinese American sculptor Haiying Wu sits in the Port Angeles Public Library… Continue reading

A model of a statue of Nisqually tribal activist Billy Frank Jr. by Chinese American sculptor Haiying Wu sits in the Port Angeles Public Library in conjunction with a meeting of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The model eventually will be cast in bronze and installed in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. Frank received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for his work in fighting for tribal treaty rights and obligations. The statue will be on display at the library through Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)